
Chris Patten
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Did You Develop Min Where You Wanted to Be?
I very much enjoyed a northern iseland am parly, because if you were a junior minister in northern ireland, you were given responsibilities which nobody challenge. I basically ran most of the normal side of life in northern Ireland and it was hugely enjoyable. But i would have paid money to do some oversee's development. It was a wonderful job travelling round the world, dealing with really interesting problems. And ithad kept me away too long, and it wasn't tirely fair on my family realy cause i was always travelling. This made me more interested in foreign policy and more interested in the interactions between economics and politics. A sense of the united kingdoms place on the world age as well
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